Job Details

CPS Acquisitions Incubation Program Manager/Project Manager

Location:

San Jose, California, US

Additional Location(s)

RTP

Area of Interest

Business Strategy and Operations

Job Type

Professional

Technology Interest

Internet of Everything

Job Id

1220180

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Do you want to be a member of an organization that is passionate about delivering globally consistent end-to-end Customer and Partner Services? Are you excited to deliver innovation for stakeholder intimacy at scale in a digitized world? Then Customer Partner Services may be excellent for you. Our three main pillars are Operational Excellence, Business Outcomes, and Customer Success.

In CPS Incubation Services we are responsible for integrating Acquisitions, New Biz Models, New Offers, New Capabilities & Transformation into CPS Run-The-Biz engine. We do this by performing Ops Assessments, Readiness, Capacity Planning, Driving Simplification of Processes & Policies and then Driving Scalability by means of Automation. We play the role of Assessors/Enablers/Optimizers for some areas & Incubators for some other areas. We are both do-ers and consultants/mentors. We provide both the Subject Matter Expertise and Transformation Initiative Oversight and Management.

Our Acquisitions team within CPS - Incubation Services offers an opportunity to those with passion and creativity to make a difference and drive business success, solve real operational problems through creative solutions. We drive seamless integration and operationalization of cutting edge new business models and acquisitions in cloud, security, IoT and software areas whilst ensuring a consistent Customer Partner experience. You will influence the execution design to ensure Customer Partner impacts and impacts to CPS are minimized while accelerating Cisco’s ability to go-to-market with the offerings of the newly acquired companies.

Are you one of those individuals who would like to be part of the exciting transformation to a software company that Cisco has undertaken? Would you like to do it firsthand as we integrate the acquired companies Quote to Cash process with ours and help them scale? Then this could be a fit for you.

As a Program Manager of a small and agile team you will drive home solutions, implement and integrate operational processes that help Cisco scale and succeed in its transformational endeavor.

Who You'll Work With

You will engage with and influence Operations Acquisition Integration and other partner teams in solution execution design and process definition to mitigate customer/partner/CPS impact. You will produce Communication using media such as power point & email tailored to a different audience (Stakeholders, Senior management, Team, X-functional partners). You will collaborate with the various Program leads/members wit the team to actively exchange information, decisions and conduct interlock sessions to ensure dependencies and overlaps are addressed.

You will have a thorough understanding of Business fundamentals and validated experience of leading cross functional initiatives. You are also a high energy, highly motivated, and a self-starter person. You possess an ability to work with multiple leadership styles, and be effective in ambiguous and unstructured situations while also working independently and be a quick learner, able to move fast and adapt to changing pace.

Minimum Qualifications:

•Possess Excellent Written and Verbal interpersonal skills

•BA/BS minimum in Technical/Business (Masters preferred)

•At least 8 years of hands on Project/Program Management experience in a highly cross functional environment

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